ABSTRACT
In 1904, Duchamp was graduated from the Ecole Boussuert in Rouen and moved to Paris to join his elder brothers. He studied painting at the Academie Julian but was easily distracted, for example, by billiards. Still, his paintings, which were of acquaintances and rural scenery, were quite competent and marked by an assimilation of Postimpressionist applications of thick textures.
